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What poisoned pen has written / The words that bar my breath; / What hard, harsh hand has smitten / My soul with death?
"_Love, my love_"--these the words I read-- / "_The vision and dream of a life have died. / Hurt to the heart by the words you said,_ / Angered, stung by a wounded pride, / Mad with the thought that your love was dead-- / I have wedded a loveless, unloved bride-- / Would I had died instead!_"